Jack Royle
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Jack Royle
@royleity.bsky.social
Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Saskatchewan looking at all things microbial in grassland soils. Ex-AGRFer. Previously @Royleity on Twitter.
That the epigenetic mechanism happening (the TE mobilization they mention) is actually leading to mutations in the DNA itself, which is then passed on.
December 6, 2024 at 1:19 AM
Yeah, so ‘epigenetics’ is a way to change what your DNA does in response to external pressure, without actually changing the letters. Traditionally you don’t pass that down, it only affects you for the time that pressure is on you (in this case, the worm is hot). But this paper is suggesting (1/2)
December 6, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Basically, if the environment C elegans is becomes too warm, a few internal processes destabilize and can lead to stress-induced DNA mutations that could be passed on to offspring, which were previously thought not to be heritable.
December 6, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Thousands and thousands of Stackoverflow website scrapes has made it wonderful at generating pieces of code for niche requests you can't be bothered googling about. That's about it's only use though, unless you love "delve" and dotpoints being spat out as every second word of a rewrite task.
November 19, 2024 at 5:27 PM
I can print this out and throw it around my building's lobby for $5, does that count?
November 18, 2024 at 9:04 PM